Biblical? It's a lot older than any English bible; scoring (reckoning in base 20) just happened to be something were very familiar with at the time the Tyndale

Biblical? It's a lot older than any English bible; scoring (reckoning in base 20) just happened to be something were very familiar with at the time the Tyndale and later King James bibles were translated. Children's games in parts of England still use Celtic-derived "sheep scoring" numbers.